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CHOREO Composes 2,950 Humanoid Skills at 95.4% Success
CHOREO unifies 2,950 humanoid skills as trajectories, hitting 95.4% success on 130 multi-action tasks — no retraining required.
Read →Layered E-Skin Hits R² 0.944 for Shear Sensing
A two-layer FSR array achieves R²=0.944 shear-force estimation and slip detection from robotic fingertips.
Read →VLPSA Lifts VLA Collision Avoidance from 23% to 91%
VLPSA safety filter raises π0.5 collision avoidance from 23.1% to 91.2% on SafeLIBERO without retraining.
Read →VT-Bridge Lifts VLA Contact Success Rate from 11.7% to 62.9%
VT-Bridge adapts pretrained VLAs to tactile-aware VTLAs with just 50 demos and a 0.98M-parameter adapter.
Read →Dongfeng Xiaodong Robot Enters Factory Training in October
Dongfeng's Xiaodong humanoid enters factory training by end of October, targeting trial production before year-end.
Read →ForeTac-VLA Hits 95% on Contact-Rich Tasks
ForeTac-VLA achieves 95% avg success on 4 contact-rich tasks, beating standard VLA fine-tuning by 36.25 pp.
Read →VLA-Feedback Lifts Dynamic Task Success 27.5% to 85%
VLA-Feedback's two-timescale architecture closes the open-loop gap in diffusion VLAs, hitting 85% on dynamic tasks vs. 27.5% baseline.
Read →AthenaZero Throws at 30 m/s with Human-Level Arm Inertia
AthenaZero hits 30 m/s throws and 14 m/s catches using quasi-direct drive arms with human-comparable endpoint inertia.
Read →DITTO's 7-DOF Hand Solves Force Feedback Tradeoff
Columbia researchers co-designed a 7-DOF hand and kinematically equivalent exoskeleton to unify handheld data collection and bilateral teleoperation.
Read →Adaptive-MHE Closes Sim-to-Real Gap in Loco-Manipulation
Adaptive-MHE couples online parameter estimation with sampling-based MPC to match ground-truth controller performance in legged loco-manipulation.
Read →Multi-Humanoid Cooperative Transport via Decentralized Control
Oregon State researchers demonstrate decentralized object-centric control enabling humanoid teams to cooperatively pick up and transport objects.
Read →RL Lifts VLA Accuracy from 42% to 97% in 10 Minutes
Stanford researchers cut VLA latency-induced failure with RL, lifting task success from 42% to 97% in under 10 minutes of robot data.
Read →WholeBodyWAM Trains on 4K Hours of Human Motion
WholeBodyWAM uses 4K+ hours of heterogeneous human and humanoid motion to bootstrap whole-body manipulation without robot-specific labels.
Read →AdaDE Cuts VLA Parameters 40% With 95% Task Retention
AdaDE converts VLA feed-forward blocks to MoE layers, deactivating 40% of LLM params while retaining 95.1% LIBERO success rate.
Read →RECAL Adds Collision Awareness to Blind WBCs on Digit V3
RECAL wraps any blind WBC with a cross-attention layer that trades target tracking for collision safety on Digit V3.
Read →XRoboToolKit-T Adds Tactile Sensing to Teleoperation
XRoboToolKit-T combines tactile force control and a VLA model to improve data collection for contact-rich manipulation tasks.
Read →Agility Digit 5 Targets $300M Orders with Human-Safe Design
Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 with proximity-based safety shutoff, $300M+ in orders, and a $2.5B SPAC valuation.
Read →Mantis Standard Humanoid Launches at RMB 9,800
Xi'an Jiaotong University spinout prices its 22-DOF modular Mantis Standard humanoid at RMB 9,800.
Read →GROOVE Cuts VLA Jerk 43% Without Retraining
GROOVE reduces rotational EEF jerk 43.42% on LIBERO with no retraining, boosting task success from 93.75% to 95.75%.
Read →REAL-I Challenge at ICRA 2026: VLA Training Lessons
ICRA 2026's REAL-I Challenge stress-tests VLA training on a shared dual-arm humanoid, exposing key limits of offline metrics.
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